Bigfoot in S.C.? | Experts: ‘it’s the real deal’[South Carolina]

The State ^ | 13 Apr 2008 | RANDY BURNS

[JamesP81]

“They woke up Feb. 28 to find the front fender of their 2002 Dodge Grand Caravan chewed up, bite marks through the front grill, wheels on both sides bitten and metal crumpled in a wad. There was also blood on the front and sides of the car.”

Sounds like a bear to me, and not a particularly big one either. A bear can tear a car all to pieces in pretty short order.

[BGHater]

It’s very hard to find remains of animals. Sure you find some every now and then. When was the last time someone found the remains from a bear or lynx? Not often.

Rodents love to chew up of bones and our vultures, the bird type, not the lawyers do a great job of cleaning up.

[ZGuy]

Bob goes out, gets blottoed, he hits something and smashes up the van, so he parks the van in the driveway and says "I've got to explain this! I know! I'll say Bigfoot attacked the car while we slept!" He then goes in the house and goes to bed like nothing happened . . .

Nah, too unbelieveable.

[WVNan]

Red eyes? Mothman lives.

[ltc8k6]

The DNA results are always inconclusive. The sample is always degraded, or collected improperly, etc.

We’ll hear nothing much more about the DNA, imo.

When they got the so called Skookum butt print, there were apples with bite marks that were covered in the DNA of whatever bit them.

Yet we never heard about the DNA test results.

Why? Because an elk is not news.

[Niteranger68]

I actually had a “Lizard Man” t-shirt back in the day.

[ltc8k6]

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/lizardman-back/

Pics of the van damage can be seen there. Wonder why they recycled an old story?

[untrained skeptic]

It’s very hard to find remains of animals. Sure you find some every now and then. When was the last time someone found the remains from a bear or lynx? Not often.

It's been a while, but I've seen a black bear that was road kill on the highway before.

While I haven't seen the remains of many such animals personally, it isn't that uncommon to find remains in their natural habitats, and while there are far more bears, we aren't talking about something being rare, we're talking about them never being found.

They are saying that there are 3500 currently living nationwide. However, since some die and others are born over time, we are talking about more than a few thousand, and we are talking about remains that would be very unusual and would be far more likely to get reported than something like bear remains.

Sure scavengers will destroy some remains given time, but having never found remains? Not even close to being credible.

[thackney]

Nearly 50 posts without a Janet Reno picture.

This web site is slipping...

[brytlea]

Thanks, I was reading fast and missed that.
susie

[uglybiker]

Bishopville is Lizard Man territory.

Great! Now we're gonna have a cryptozoological civil war!

[Phantom Lord]

Well, if it’s stupid enough to try to eat a minivan, I don’t know what that says about it’s danger to us

George Bush's economic failures and the resulting increase in food and fuel prices are even taking their toll on Bigfoots and Lizard Men. They will soon replace women and minorities as those hardest hit.

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

Okay all you Bigfoot bashers you can laugh at me if you want but I think it is possible that a North American ape could be living in the wilderness areas. People see what they can't explain and it does not look like a bear to them. There is nothing wrong with that. It is not a crime and it's not stupid to see something that you cannot identify. How can one person tell another what he saw or didn't see unless he was there seeing it too?

Anyway if people want to go looking for such a creature to see if it does exist, what in the world is wrong with that? It's like some people are saying, you should not look for something unless you already know it exists. But you can't know it exists until you look for it! So I say, more power to the Bigfoot stalkers. I hope they find him and I hope he does exist. It would be really cool and a smack down for science which it needs every now and then.

[Phantom Lord]

I agree.

And with some regularity a new species is discovered, and one thought to be extinct is found to be alive and well. Even ones thought to be extinct for millions of years. Such as the selacanth (sp?).

[Eska]

Bear luv chewin plastic & rubber. I’ve watched bear tear old snowmachines apart; they really enjoy sinking their teeth into that plastic cowling. You should see what they do to rubber around dredges.

[BGHater]

“I have not told half of what I saw.”
-Marco Polo

[DakotaGator]

The creatures have three toes, Biscardi said. They range in height from 6 to 9 feet and weigh 300 to 800 pounds. They are hairy. They climb trees and move around by doing what Biscardi describes as knuckle walking.

I don't know. Sounds an awful lot like some of those Code Pinkos to me.

[fish hawk]

My thoughts exactly. No mention of analyzing the blood! What's up with that? Ten bucks says it's a bear. A friend of mine up in the mountains of Colorado had a bear do exactly the same thing to his jeep.

[stlnative]

One dark night near Bishopville, South Carolina, in June of 1988, seventeen-year-old Christopher Davis stopped to change a flat tire along Scape Ore Swamp. As he was finishing the task and putting the flat tire in the trunk, he heard a noise coming from a nearby field. As he peered off into the darkness, he saw a seven foot tall creature with red glowing eyes running towards him on its two hind legs and grunting as it closed in. Christopher jumped into the car and sped off down the road.

[stlnative]

Just as he thought his nightmare was over, Christopher heard a crashing thud above him and saw a large, three-fingered hand with scales and long claws reach over his windshield. Another hand was trying to pry open his drivers side door. Christopher, now petrified and scared for his life, swerved the vehicle on the road and the creature suddenly fell off. He didn't know what kind of animal ran on two legs and could catch up with his car, which was traveling at a relatively high speed. He had managed to get away and that's all that mattered.

When Christopher arrived at home shaking and crying, his father settled him down and Christopher began to tell his parents about what had happened. His dad knew that his son wasn't usually an imaginative storyteller, and Christopher's highly emotional state compelled him to believe that Christopher did, in fact, see something highly unusual.